survey {MASS} | R Documentation

## Student Survey Data

### Description

This data frame contains the responses of 237 Statistics I students at the University of Adelaide to a number of questions.

### Usage

    data(survey)

### Format

The components of the data frame are:

`Sex`
  The sex of the student. (Factor with levels `"Male"` and `"Female"`.)
`Wr.Hnd`
  The span (distance from tip of thumb to tip of little finger of spread hand) of writing hand, in centimetres.
`NW.Hnd`
  Span of non-writing hand
`W.Hnd`
  Writing hand of student. (Factor, with levels `"Left"` and `"Right"`.)
`Fold`
  “Fold your arms! Which is on top” (Factor, with levels `"R on L"`, `"L on R"`, `"Neither"`.)
`Pulse`
  Pulse rate of student (beats per minute.)
`Clap`
  ‘Clap your hands! Which hand is on top?’ (Factor, with levels `"Right"`, `"Left"`, `"Neither"`.)
`Exer`
  How often the student exercises. (Factor, with levels `"Freq"` (frequently), `"Some"`, "`None"`)
`Smoke`
  How much the student smokes. (Factor, levels `"Heavy"`, `"Regul"` (regularly), `"Occas"` (occasionally), `"Never"`.)
`Height`
  The height of the student, in centimetres.
`M.I`
  Indicates whether the student expressed height in imperial (feet/inches) or metric (centimetres/metres) units. (Factor, levels `"Metric"`, `"Imperial"`.)
`Age`
  Age of the student, in years.

### References

Venables, W. N. and Ripley, B. D. (1999) Modern Applied Statistics with S-PLUS. Third Edition. Springer.

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